"expected" is perhaps the wrong metric here. There's a difference between being certain of getting 10mm of rain and 20 km/h winds, and a 10% chance of 100mm rain and 200 km/h winds, and you want people to prepare accordingly.
The thrust of the article - although it can't state it directly and frames it as a graphics/communications issue - is that more people should prepare for hurricanes, that the cost of more false positives outweighs the downsides of increased false negatives.
The thrust of the article - although it can't state it directly and frames it as a graphics/communications issue - is that more people should prepare for hurricanes, that the cost of more false positives outweighs the downsides of increased false negatives.